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Dental Biomaterials Track Core Curriculum

Required courses below and 12 credit hours

Biochemistry-Microbiology  

• BIOC B500 Introduction to Biochemistry (3 cr.); or
• DENT G959 Graduate Oral Microbiology (3 cr.)

General Graduate  

• PBHL B651 Introduction to Biostatistics I (2 cr.)
• GRAD G504 Introduction to Research Ethics (2 cr.); or
• GRAD G505 Responsible Conduct of Research (1 )
• GRAD G655 Research Communications Seminar (2 cr.)
• EDUC J500 Instruction in the Context of Curriculum (3 cr.); or
• PSY 608 Measurement Theory and the Interpretation of Data (3 cr.); or
• EDUC W531 Technology for Teaching and Learning (3 cr) or other teaching method course recommended by the program director

Dental/Oral Biology

• DENT G910 Seminar: Dental Materials (1 cr.) or
• DENT G910 Seminar: Preventive Dentistry (1 cr.) or
• DENT R959 Seminar: Oral Biology (1 cr.; taken one semester each year) and one IUPUI graduate level seminar course outside of the Dental School (one semester seminar course each year, 1 cr. each
• DENT R956 Current Topics in Oral Biology (4 cr.)

Elective Courses

Offered by the Purdue University School of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) on the West Lafayette Campus and Indiana University School of Dentistry on the Indianapolis Campus

• MSE 53000 or MSE 23000 Materials Processing in Manufacturing or Structure and Properties of Materials (3 cr.)
• MSE 24000 Processing and Properties of Materials (3 cr.)
• MSE 33500 Materials Characterization Laboratory (3 cr.)
• MSE 35000 Thermodynamics of Materials (3 cr.)
• MSE 38200 Mechanical Response of Materials (3 )
• MSE 69000 Seminar in Materials Engineering (0 cr.)
• DENT G911 Dental Materials Science and Engineering (3 cr.)
• DENT G912 Properties and Test Methods: Dental Materials (3 cr.)
• DENT G913 Clinical Applications of Dental Materials (3 cr.)
• MA 52700 Advanced Mathematics for Engineering and Physics I (3 cr.)

Specialty Courses (in addition to the Core Courses):

These courses are offered by the Purdue University School of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) on West Lafayette Campus; Indiana University School of Dentistry on the Indianapolis Campus; and Indiana University Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) on the Indianapolis Campus.

Polymers:

• MSE 52500 Structure-Property Relationships of Engineering Polymers (3 cr.)
• MSE 59700Y Polymer Synthesis (3 cr.)
• MSE 59700B-A&AE 590M Manufacturing of Advanced Composites (3 cr.)
• Six credit graduate level coursework chosen by the student’s advisory committee

Ceramics:

• MSE 51000 Microstructural Characterization Techniques (3 cr.)
• MSE 51200 Powder Processing (3 cr.)
• MSE 52300 Physical Ceramics (3 cr.)
• MSE 55600 Fracture of Materials (3 cr.)   
• Three credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Metals:

• MSE 50800 Phase Transformation in Solids (3 cr.)
• MSE 51000 Microstructural Characterization Techniques (3 cr.)
• MSE 52200 Rate Phenomena in Process Metallurgy (3 cr.)
• Six credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Biomechanics:

• BME 595C Skeletal Biomechanics (3 cr.)
• BME 595J Molecular and Cellular Mechanics (3 cr.)
• MSE 55600 Fracture of Materials (3 cr.)
• Six credits in graduate-level course work chosen by the student's advisory committee

Tissue Engineering:

• BME 595E Tissue Engineering (3 cr.)
• BMS 523 Tissue Engineering (3 cr.)
• BME 601 Principles of Biomedical Engineering I (3 cr.)
• BME 602 Principles of Biomedical Engineering II (3 cr.)
• BME 595B Biomolecular Engineering (3 cr.)

Additional information for Purdue University and IUPUI courses is available at the following links:

Indiana University Graduate School

Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

IUPUI Department of Mathematical Sciences

IUPUI Department of Psychology

IUPUI Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health

IUPUI School of Education

IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology

Purdue University Graduate School

Purdue University School of Materials Engineering

Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

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